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Continuing Walter Carrington’s work

flowerThe Walter Carrington Educational Trust was established to continue the work of the Constructive Teaching Centre on a charitable basis. The Constructive Teaching Centre is home to the oldest Alexander Technique teacher training course in the world.

Walter Carrington founded the Constructive Teaching Centre in 1960. He had continued without interruption the training school for teachers of the Alexander Technique that was started by F M Alexander in 1931. Between 1960 and 2010 the school was situated at 18 Lansdowne Road in West London. Walter died in 2005, and the training school became a charity in 2010.

Supporting the Trust

Please How to Support the Trust for details of how to donate.

What is happening now

The three sons of Walter and his wife, Dilys, have donated the training course together with its furniture, office resources, and all books and archives on the Alexander Technique to the Trust. To this they added a generous cash donation.

In February 2012 the centre moved to Imperial Wharf in Fulham (SW6), five minutes’ walk from Imperial Wharf overground station.

Our new Alexander Technique Centre – www.atiw.org – is fitted out to our specifications and houses the training course as well as Walter’s considerable archive and library on the Alexander Technique. In addition it is a venue for workshops and individual lessons. See Find us for a map.

Our fund-raising campaign has been successful so far. In particular we have raised funds for bursaries for students training in the Alexander Technique.

NEWS

The deadline for the next round of applications for teacher training at CTC is 15th June 2018.

How to apply.

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Scott Workman

Brigadier Scott Workman OBE  is a serving Army office currently working in the Ministry of Defence in the procurement and acquisition area. He has seen operational service in Northern Ireland, Africa, Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He is currently in his final year of service and taking Alexander Technique lessons. He has three children, and he is a keen offshore sailor.

Scott Workman

Brigadier Scott Workman OBE  is a serving Army office currently working in the Ministry of Defence in the procurement and acquisition area. He has seen operational service in Northern Ireland, Africa, Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan. He is currently in his final year of service and taking Alexander Technique lessons. He has three children, and he is a keen offshore sailor.

Christopher Carrington

Christopher is the eldest son of Dilys and Walter Carrington.  After leaving school in 1960, he joined the Royal Air Force as an officer cadet at the RAF College, Cranwell. He graduated as a pilot in 1963 and after several flying appointments, served in the Ministry of Defence and NATO Headquarters in Brussels.  After retiring from the RAF in 1991 he worked in London as financial controller and company secretary for a not-for-profit organisation.  In 2001, he ceased full-time employment to accompany his partner on her diplomatic appointments overseas. Now fully retired Christopher is living in west London.

James Rowsell

James, LLB Hons, is Barrister at Law. He has worked for a variety of Investment Banks as an equity financial analyst and salesman, and in a number of senior management roles for Paribas, James Capel (HSBC), Salomon Brothers, Citigroup, and Man Group. He recently retired as CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald in Europe. He is a pupil of the Alexander Technique.

Regina Stratil, administrator

Regina is the administrator of the Constructive Teaching Centre and the administrator the archives. She trained at the Alexander Technique Studio, London, and teaches at the Trust’s Alexander Technique Centre in Imperial Wharf, and at Student Central, former ULU building, in Bloomsbury.

Jean M. O. Fischer, centre manager

Jean is in charge of coordinating all activities at the centre and associated administration. He trained 1984-87 and did two post-graduate terms at Constructive Teaching Centre in 1988. He taught at the Alexander Technique Studio 1997-2012 and is currently teaching on the CTC training courses. He gives individual lessons at the Pimlico Centre for the Alexander Technique, London. Jean has annotated and edited books on the Alexander Technique, and is the publisher of books on the Technique under the Mouritz imprint. Jean is a previous Congress Director, STAT Council Member, and trustee of the FM Alexander Trust.

Gerald Foley

Gerald qualified as a civil engineering in 1957. He is author of The Energy Question (Penguin, 1976) and has written extensively on energy and environmental issues in the developing world. He taught at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, and has worked for the International Institute for Environment and Development and the Panos Institute. During the 1990s he carried out studies for the World Bank, EU, UN and other international agencies. He was chair of the Board of Trustees of the Panos Institute during the 1990s. He trained as a teacher of the Alexander Technique at the Constructive Teaching Centre and has been a visiting teacher at CTC since 2002.

Mary Anne Sutherland

Mary Anne graduated from the Courtauld Institute in 1968.  She then worked in the Editorial office of McKinsey.  After having two children she taught on the Christie’s Fine Arts Course, was a freelance lecturer in Art History and started and ran Art at Exhibition.  From 1983 she was a tutor at City and Guilds of London Art School.  She has also worked with asylum seekers for a human rights lawyer.  Mary Anne has been a pupil of the Alexander Technique with Ruth Murray at the Constructive Teaching Centre for three years.